Essentials: Understanding & Healing the Mind | Dr. Karl Deisseroth

Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. And now my conversation with Dr. Carl Dyseroff. Well, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me.

So for people that might not be so familiar with the fields of neuroscience, etc., What is the difference between neurology and psychiatry? Psychiatry focuses on disorders where we can't see something that's physically wrong, where we don't have a measurable, where there's no blood test that makes the diagnosis, there's no brain scan that tells us this is schizophrenia, this is depression for an individual patient. And so psychiatry is is much more mysterious. And

The only tools we have are words. Neurologists are fantastic physicians. They see the stroke on brain scans. They see the seizure and the pre-seizure activity with an EEG, and they can measure and treat based on those measurables. In psychiatry, we have a harder job.

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